Motivational Quotes

Silence

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

- Delint, Charles

Best Quotes about Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.